{"id":330315,"date":"2025-08-09T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:30:19","slug":"britain-would-be-speaking-german-if-starmer-was-in-charge-during-ww2-us-ambassador-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330315\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain would be speaking German if Starmer was in charge during WW2, US ambassador says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Britain would have lost the Second World War and would be speaking German if Sir Keir Starmer was running the country <\/a>at the time, the US ambassador to Israel<\/a> has said in a stinging attack. <\/p>\n

Condemning the prime minister\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s plan<\/a> for a full military takeover of Gaza<\/a>, Mike Huckabee<\/a> wrote on social media: \u201cSo Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas<\/a> and feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? <\/p>\n

\u201cDid UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them?\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on X on Friday, Mr Huckabee wrote: \u201cEver heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn\u2019t food you dropped. If you had been PM then UK would be speaking German!\u201d. <\/p>\n

In a follow-up post, the US ambassador to Israel suggested Sir Keir \u201cought to sit this one out\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Huckabee was responding to Sir Keir\u2019s statement that Israel\u2019s decision to pursue its plan to take control of Gaza city was \u201cwrong\u201d. <\/a><\/p>\n

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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Sir Keir said that the Israeli government\u2019s plans would \u201cdo nothing to bring an end to this conflict or to help secure the release of the hostages\u201d. <\/p>\n

US vice president JD Vance<\/a> has also described a \u201cdisagreement\u201d about how the US and UK could achieve their \u201ccommon objectives\u201d in the Middle East, and said Donald Trump\u2019s administration had \u201cno plans to recognise a Palestinian state\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has unveiled new principles for military action, which include \u201cthe demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip\u201d, \u201cIsraeli security control in the Gaza Strip\u201d and \u201cthe establishment of an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas<\/a> nor the Palestinian Authority\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Israel Defence Forces \u201cwill prepare for taking control of Gaza City while distributing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population outside the combat zones\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Foreign secretary David Lammy and US vice president JD Vance<\/p>\n

Sir Keir has pledged to recognise a Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government meets a series of conditions towards ending the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

These include taking \u201csubstantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza\u201d, \u201cagreeing to a ceasefire, and making clear there will be no annexations in the West Bank\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking while on holiday in the UK and staying at Foreign Secretary David Lammy<\/a>\u2019s grace-and-favour retreat in Kent, Mr Vance said the UK \u201cis going to make its decision\u201d on Palestinian recognition, but warned: \u201cWe have no plans to recognise a Palestinian state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what it would mean to really recognise a Palestinian state given the lack of functional government there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Vance added on Friday: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of common objectives here. There is some, I think, disagreement about how exactly to accomplish those common objectives, but look, it\u2019s a tough situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Lammy joined several allied foreign ministers in \u201cstrongly\u201d rejecting Israel\u2019s plans for Gaza, warning they \u201cwill aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, endanger the lives of the hostages, and further risk the mass displacement of civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n

A joint statement from the foreign ministers of the UK, Australia, Italy, Germany and New Zealand said: \u201cThe plans that the government of Israel has announced risk violating international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny attempts at annexation or of settlement extension violate international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement added: \u201cWe are united in our commitment to the implementation of a negotiated two-state solution as the only way to guarantee that both Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace, security, and dignity.<\/p>\n

\u201cA political resolution based on a negotiated two-state solution requires the total demilitarisation of Hamas and its complete exclusion from any form of governance in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Authority must have a central role.\u201d<\/p>\n

An emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss Israel\u2019s plan had been due to take place on Saturday, but has been rescheduled to Sunday at around 3pm UK time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-330315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998347355967354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}